CHAPTER 182

An Act concerning certain acts of inmates and parolees and supplementing chapter 12 of Title 2C of the New Jersey Statutes.

    Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

C.2C:12-12 Definitions relative to certain acts of inmates, parolees.

    1. As used in this act:

    "Bodily fluid" means saliva, blood, urine, feces, seminal fluid or any other bodily fluid.

    "Department of Corrections employee" means any corrections officer, parole officer or other employee of the New Jersey Department of Corrections and any person under contract to provide services to the department.

C.2C:12-13 Throwing bodily fluid at Department of Corrections employees deemed aggragated assault; grading, sentence.

    2. A person who throws a bodily fluid at a Department of Corrections employee while in the performance of his duties or otherwise purposely subjects such employee to contact with a bodily fluid commits an aggravated assault. If the victim suffers bodily injury, this shall be a crime of the third degree. Otherwise, this shall be a crime of the fourth degree. A term of imprisonment imposed for this offense shall run consecutively to any term of imprisonment currently being served and to any other term imposed for another offense committed at the time of the assault. Nothing herein shall be deemed to preclude, if the evidence so warrants, an indictment and conviction for a violation or attempted violation of chapter 11 of Title 2C of the New Jersey Statutes or subsection b. of N.J.S. 2C:12-1 or any other provision of the criminal laws.

    3. This act shall take effect immediately.

    Approved August 1, 1997.